Catering Supervisor
Lindsworth School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B30 3QA38 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
29 August 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
17 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Catering, cleaning and site management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 7.15am to 2.15pm, term time only
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Between £26,409 to £32,654
What skills and experience we're looking for
What We’re Looking For
- Proven large-scale catering experience
- Level 3 qualification (or equivalent) in Supervising Food Safety in Catering
- Up-to-date Food Allergy Awareness certificate (covering Natasha’s Law)
- Strong knowledge of allergen protocols and food labelling regulations
- A commitment to inclusive education and safeguarding
What the school offers its staff
Why Join Us?
- Be part of a proactive, forward-thinking team
- Support vulnerable young people in a nurturing environment
- Enjoy excellent staff development and wellbeing focus
- Make a lasting difference through your contribution
Further information about the job
Are you passionate about great food and making a meaningful impact on young lives? Join the dedicated team at Lindsworth School as our new Catering Supervisor and help fuel futures with nutritious meals and a warm welcome.
About the role
We are seeking a dependable, experienced professional to lead our catering provision. This hands-on supervisory role involves:
- Managing food preparation, cooking, and service
- Leading a small catering team with skill and positivity
- Ensuring efficiency and value in resource use
- Maintaining top-tier hygiene and food safety
- Communicating clearly about food allergens and adhering to UK and EU laws, including Natasha’s Law
- Coordinating health & safety across kitchen operations
- Using basic ICT tools (email, Word, internet) effectively
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
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About Lindsworth School
- School type
- Special school, ages 8 to 16
- School size
- 131 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 8 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Lindsworth School website
- Email address
- recruitment@lindsworth.bham.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 0121 693 5363
About Lindsworth School - “One size fits NONE”
Lindsworth School is a provision in which all staff work together to support students in developing their academic and social skills whilst encouraging growth in their emotional and mental health wellbeing. The school had a very successful Ofsted inspection in December 2024 and we encourage all candidates to read the report prior to applying https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/25/1036322.
Lindsworth School is a mixed day/residential special school meeting the needs of 142 students, and rising, from Year 4 to Year 11 who have been assessed as having social, emotional, and mental health difficulties. Many students have medical diagnoses including ADHD, ASC, PTSD, PDA, ODD and Attachment Disorder. They have also experienced significant disruption to their education due to multiple school moves, fixed-term and permanent exclusions and prolonged periods of part-time or no placement in a school.
This is a school where you can make a real and lasting difference to the young people in our care. We are extremely ambitious to provide our students with the best education and preparation for a happy and successful life in the adult world.
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